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A lifelong passion for interior design and décor led Rafael Veiga to create RS Ventures, one of Thailand´s finest kitchen design companies. He explains how the recent boom in luxury villas and condominiums is boosting demand for high-end products, but notes the industry´s potential will continue to stagnate until the government cuts import duty and […]

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Historian Thant Myint-U tells Greg Lowe why the international community must change its tactics on the question of Myanmar Myanmar’s military government shocked the world when it chose to let its people die rather than allow foreign aid workers enter its storm-damaged interior. And the horrors will continue until constructive engagement with the junta – […]

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Tony Wheeler, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guide books, talks about the nature of travel and its impact on the environment by GREG LOWE When Tony Wheeler and his wife Maureen travelled from London through Asia to Australia in 1972, little did they know that their adventure would transform the nature of travel. Nevertheless, the […]

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GREG LOWE “GOES ISLAND” AND FINDS HIMSELF IN A RURAL, POTTERY-BEDECKED TIME CAPSULE ONLY MINUTES FROM BANGKOK’S SKYSCRAPERS IF YOU WERE TAKEN from your central Bangkok hotel, blindfolded, driven around for three hours, dropped off at Koh Kred and then asked where you were, upstream Phitsanalouk, rural Isaan, or south of Samut Songkhram would be […]

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GREG LOWE DOES THE ROUNDS OF THAILAND’S HARDEST HOLES ACROSS THE BEST NINE OPEN COURSES FROM AZURE SOUTHERN seas to misty northern mountains, Thailand offers some of the best technical golfing available in Asia. Ease of access combined with luxurious leisure activities and unsurpassed environments make it second to none. But where should you play? […]

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In Thailand’s seaside town of Hua Hin, there are several great places to visit if you don’t want to sit on the beach all day. Greg Lowe gives a tour of Hua Hin’s other attractions. With a legacy dating back to the reign of King Rama III, Hua Hin started off as a seaside village […]

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Pattaya is notorious as a sleaze and sand sort of place, but the city is starting to move upmarket and there are several interesting sights around the city. Greg Lowe goes in search of the other side of Pattaya. ‘Cultural’ and ‘Pattaya’ are words not normally used in the same sentence. The latter more often […]

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Gazing at the wonders of Southeast Asia, through the words and experiences of an author, provides a unique opportunity to explore this diverse region. Those who write in English have particular influence in their capability to inspire the world’s biggest book buying market to venture to distant shores. However, the occidental view is not without […]

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Almost every company talks about brand, but do they really understand what it is? Greg Lowe talks to author Martin Lindstrom and other experts on how branding can make or break your business.

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In the 50 odd years since he left the catholic mission that was his childhood home, Carlos Fillipe Ximenes Belo has come a long way. From Wailakama village on Timor’s north coast, he traveled through seminaries in Rome and Portugal, only to return to a homeland that was under the tyranny of Indonesian occupation, where […]

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